In her column for star magazine, the TOWIE says she wasn't surprised that Montana and Alex have split up.

The 35 year old has grown close to Montana since she left the ITV2 show, revealing that she'd been messaging the Love Island beauty via Twitter DM, and had even invited her down to her salon, Chloe's Beauty Bar in Brentwood.

TOWIE's Chloe Sims twirls in a tassel choker while on holiday. [Chloe Sims/Instagram]

"She's so busy now that I imagine the distance and her new career was probably an added pressure when their relationship was so new," she said.

Speaking to journalists ahead of entering the villa, Montana explained: "He lived too far away and I was doing my dissertation. The long distance thing just didn’t really work and I couldn’t really travel that much."